I have found it rather depressing to see so much real estate and equipment devoted to war, but the alternative is equally depressing\u2026.\u00a0 There is also a memorial to General MacArthur in Norfolk which we visited.<\/p>\n We have had a quick trip home to Connecticut to say goodbye to our favorite Uncle Dick, who has passed away after a long illness.\u00a0 He spent much of the past two years in a hospital, which is tragic for anyone, but especially so for someone who was so full of spunk and life.\u00a0 His funeral was probably the most upbeat funeral I will ever attend.\u00a0 We celebrated his quirky sense of humor and remembered all the practical jokes he participated in during his 60-year marriage and the rearing of their five children. It was great to see all the cousins and their expanding families.\u00a0 That is certainly the upside of losing someone\u2026.pulling in the long tethers of family and friends who are dispersed for so much of the time.<\/p>\n I spend some of each day knitting.\u00a0 My sister and I are knitting sweaters for her two daughters.\u00a0 They are matching sweaters, but each in its own colorway of Adriafil Knitcol yarn<\/a>, so they look quite different!\u00a0 It’s wonderful to be knitting with my sister again, even though it\u2019s somewhat vicarious, through texts and phone calls, since we are not physically with each other.\u00a0 The sweaters are Polly Macc\u2019s Brother\/Sister design<\/a>, and they are turning out really cute! The short sequence, space dyed yarns are so much cuter than what was used for the cover of the pattern booklet!<\/p>\n It\u2019s raining this morning, so we are just sitting here having coffee, enjoying the internet.\u00a0 Probably this afternoon we will venture back past Norfolk to enter the IntraCoastal Waterway for the final leg of the journey to Beaufort.\u00a0 We should be there in about a week.\u00a0 Then I\u2019ll head home\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Once again, it\u2019s the sailor\u2019s life for me\u2026..sailing down the Chesapeake, watching the season gently change to fall down here, getting back to knitting. We spent a week getting to Hampton and Norfolk, Virginia, where we\u2019ve been stalled for almost a week.\u00a0 There is a lot to do here.\u00a0 In Norfolk we visited the Nauticus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions\/2371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10-19-13b-013.jpg\" "\\"10-19-13b")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0We each have enough yarn left over to make matching hats, and I\u2019m thinking hard about a design that will have ear flaps and long ties, maybe pom poms on the ends of the ties\u2026.maybe with I-cord as a border\u2026 on the days when I have internet access I am enjoying searching for idea inspiration on Ravelry<\/a>.<\/p>\n